44 hundred and seventy-three Thomas-to- Martha letters bound in a single fat vol- ume, faces another, on ordinary paper and dated January 16, 1801, comment- ing on the tie in the Electoral College between the writer and Aaron Burr, and on a pending decision of the House of Representatives ('''As a strong dis- position exists to prevent an election, & that case not being provided for by the Constitution, a dissolution of the gov- ernment seemed possible"), and con- cluding, "Continue to love me my dear Martha and be assured of my unalter- able and tenderest love to you. Adieu." Carrying on, we found J ames Madi- son in favor of "direct taxation" as far back as 1 789, and remet Jefferson as the recipien t of a note from James Monroe, introducing Joel Poinsett, a South Car- olina legislator. Mr. Cahoon's accom- panying card proved more interesting than the letter: "Monroe appointed Poinsett as the first AmerIcan mInis- ter to Mexico in 1825; he became In- volved in local politics and accomplished little or nothing. His name is remem- bered today for the Poinsettia which he developed from a Mexican flower." No comparable identification is provided for another Jefferson introducee, sent to the birch-bark correspondent by John Quincy Adams with a "Mr. Henry M. Leeds, a Citizen of Boston, indulging a laudable curiosity, is visiting varIOUS parts of our Country for amusement and instruction." Cahoon doesn't know who in T ophet the curious Citizen was, and says so, on a card. All thirty-three Presidents are on hand, but this isn't an obstacle race, so we'l] skip a few . However, let us next cite part of Andrew Jackson's cry to Major \\Tilliam B. Lewis, a member of his Kitchen Cabinet: "SInce you left me, I have not been very well, and have been very loonsome." What is the statute of limitations for off-the-record remarks? "Dear Sir," Andrew John- son writes an unidentified dear sir in 1844, "Thomas Hart Benton is op- posed to the treaty [between the UnIted States and Texas ] -I suppose, because Tyler and Calhoun made it It is highly probable he would oppose anything they would do right or wrong Just between you and me, I think him an overbearIng, tyran- nical man He must lead in every- thing, or he will oppose it-this is between ourselves, not for the 'public eye.' Texas must come into the Union" No Rutherford Hayes cat is let out of the bag by the Morgan Library, which of- fers a Hayes letter to a bookdeal- er, E. W. Nash, of 120 Nas- sau Street, ordering four items from a catalogue and winding up with the post- script "Please send me also the New Testament in Spanish." Garfield is in with a letter to Horace Greeley, and Chester Arthur with a "My dear Mr. Cooper, I hear my name is to come up for electIon to the Union Club of which I know you are a member. I know for the sake of old times you will be glad to send a letter to the Committee to recom" (here the script is lost on the other side of the sheet). "Possibly the American philanthropist Peter Cooper or his son Edward," Mr. Cahoon's card reads. "Remember to keep down ex- penses," Benjamin Harrison writes his son, Russell. Alas for modern contraptions! With Theodore Roosevelt we leave the vari- egation of handwriting and come to the first typescript-that of his autobiogra- phy-and from here on, except for Coolidge's pencilled autobiography, lit- tle but signatures remains to indulge our laudable graphological curiosity. Several letters to Morgans crop up. President Taft thanks the senior J. P. for present- ing a set of autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Library of Congress; President Harding invites the son to an interview in Wash- ington "if it is not askIng too much;" and President Franklin Roosevelt, after his mother's death, writes him, in an Interchange transcending politics, "Dear Jack, That was a very nIce telegram you sent me about my Mother. I much appreciate it and this note takes to you my best wishes." Truman, from Inde- pendence, and Eisenhower, from the White House, thank Cass Canfield, chairman of the editorIal board of Harper & Brothers, for books, and so does Vice-President Nixon, appearing in a Presidential-candidate grace note with Senator Kennedv, who regrets a lunch invitation from a Harper vice- president (Evan Thomas). "Except for a few letters lent by Harper's, all the exhibIts are the Li- brary's," said Mr. Cahoon, who had caught up with us on our tour. 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Among contemporaries, I've tried to pick innocuous letters. If we had one mentioning a cocktail par- ty-and I don't say we have-I wouldn't use it." Following our Presidential trip, we gained the office of Frederick B. Adams, Jr., the Library's director, and, as we gazed out the window at a burgeoning cluster of orange girders, asked for the latest building dope. "We're fi- nancing the structural changes and a new lecture hall out of a three-million- dollar fund drive inaugurated a year " h . d " s f ' . d ago, e sal. 0 ar, We ve raIse a little over a million six hundred thou- sand. We have no professional fund raisers, no theatre benefits, no benefit balls, and no charity auctions. Sev- enty foundations have contributed, and some two hundred and eighty individual donors. The new building, which will connect the original 1906 McKim, Mead & White library with the 1928 BenjamIn Wistar Morris annex, has been designed by Alexander P. Mor- gan, a great-nephew of Pierpont Mor- gan . " Who should drop in that very minute but the architectural Mr. Morgan! "To give the buildings uniformity of style, we are using the same stone joint- ing and the same exterior marble," he said. "We started construction last J ul y and expect to finish next summer. It's wonderful working in such beautiful and happy surroundings." We asked whether he specializes professionally, and he said, "Chiefly residential work, occasional research lahoratories. But also alterations to kitchens for friends. Anything!" Mixup W E thought we'd sorted out all the K.ennedys- J ack, Bobby, Ted, ] ackie j Eunice, Jean, etc.-but we must admIt that for a time last week we got confused agaIn. "POLICE, KENNEDY STILL BATTLING," said the front page of the Post on Wednesday afternoon as we were pöSSÍ11g a newsstand on our way to lunch_ Ah, we thought, snapping up a copy, a new de- velopment in the campaign. The Kennedy of the hpadline, though, turned out to be Police Commis- sioner Stephen P. Kennedy a Kennedy we'd forgotten about. The next afternoon, the headline